― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
The doctor in younger, fresher mode. May he revisit such an environment soon.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)
The doctor in MUCH younger and fresher mode.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
A BULLETPROOF LandCruiser at high speed bursting out of a tribal compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan region was just the latest infuriating setback in the US's quest to bring down the top of the al-Qa'ida tree.
The car, followed by two armoured vehicles and a phalanx of heavily armed militants able to wipe out dozens of crack troops sent to blast the terrorists from their nest, is believed to have contained Ayman al-Zawahiri, right-hand man to Osama bin Laden.
After mounting speculation that US and Pakistani forces ranged on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were about to pounce on al-Qa'ida's key planner, a senior Taliban spokesman yesterday made the claim Washington least wanted to hear - that both Zawahiri and bin Laden were safe in Afghanistan.
"He may have slipped the net," the official said.
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 19 March 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)